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noun
- Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
- (context, optics, computer graphics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.
- (mathematics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve.
- (context, informal, chemistry) caustic soda
Translations: adjective
- Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue
- (context, of language etc) sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, sarcastic
Translations: - Italian: caustico
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Etymology: From the Greek , burnt, via the Latin causticus, burning.
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